Overview

• The General Services Administration directed all federal agencies to end or transition roughly $100 million in Harvard contracts, citing taxpayer fiduciary responsibilities.
• The GSA letter alleges that Harvard’s admissions policies and campus climate continue to violate nondiscrimination standards by discriminating on race and failing to curb antisemitism.
• Harvard filed lawsuits challenging the contract cancellations and is separately suing over the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to block its enrollment of international students.
• President Alan Garber argued that cutting research funding undermines national interests by halting ongoing projects in health, technology and other high-priority fields.
• The administration has also threatened to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status as part of its broader effort to enforce federal compliance on discrimination and antisemitism.